絲瓜
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Chinese
[edit]| silk; thread; trace | melon; claw; gourd melon; claw; gourd; squash | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (絲瓜) | 絲 | 瓜 | |
| simp. (丝瓜) | 丝 | 瓜 | |
Pronunciation
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- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): si1 gua1
- Cantonese (Jyutping): si1 gwaa1
- Gan (Wiktionary): 'si1 gua1
- Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): si1 gua1
- Jin (Wiktionary): si1 gua1
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 1sy-ko
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): sr1 gua1
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄍㄨㄚ
- Tongyong Pinyin: sihgua
- Wade–Giles: ssŭ1-kua1
- Yale: sz̄-gwā
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sygua
- Palladius: сыгуа (sygua)
- Sinological IPA (key): /sz̩⁵⁵ ku̯ä⁵⁵/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: si1 gua1
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: sgua
- Sinological IPA (key): /sz̩⁵⁵ kua⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: si1 gwaa1
- Yale: sī gwā
- Cantonese Pinyin: si1 gwaa1
- Guangdong Romanization: xi1 gua1
- Sinological IPA (key): /siː⁵⁵ kʷaː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: 'si1 gua1
- Sinological IPA (key): /ˈsz̩⁴² kua⁴²/
- (Nanchang)
- Hakka
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: si1 gua1
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /sz̩¹¹ kua¹¹/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wu
- Xiang
- (Changsha)
- Wiktionary: sr1 gua1
- Sinological IPA (key): /sz̩³³ ku̯a̠³³/
- (Changsha)
Noun
[edit]絲瓜
- loofah
- (Cantonese) specifically the Chinese okra (Luffa acutangula)
Synonyms
[edit]Dialectal synonyms of 絲瓜 (“loofah”) [map]